Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-07-21
THE WEST.

THE WEST.
TIE St Louis-B Baltimore gains W
stopped by the police of St Louis on INC
10th after the first inning, ball playing on
Sunday being in violation OF the SUNDAY
law n 81
GovERNoR ODYSSEY, OF Illinois, mas OF
dered q strict qnarantine against Inc in-
fected cattle quarters of Chicago.
THE evening edition of the Terre Haute
dad. Daily Express has been soid 70 ING
Gazetts and consolidated with that paper -
SEVERAL small buildings near Hlghmore,
d. T.. were destroyed by wlndsuorm Ino
other night.
East SAGINAW (Mich.) mill employees are
working to secure the exclusion OF French
Cenad,ens who come over during the
winter TO work in the woods, at WnicN
time mill men can only find work In the
lumber camps. The practice is thougut 10
be a violation of the statute prohibiting the
contracting OF foreign workmen 10 Work IN
this country.
HoSG DEFY, who was recently found guilty
of the murder of Mrs. Bilyon at Colusa,
Cal, was lynched by mob the same night
The lynching was caused by hong icy
being sentenced 10 lie imprisonment AZ
stead of hanging.
A DISASTROUS food occurred recently at
Thompson Falls. Idaho, caused by the
breaking of a big dam on Blossom lake.
MANY wagons and teams were reported
swept away and bridges destroyed, and IL
was feared that a number OF lives were
lost.
THE stockholders of the National Con-
sumers' Meat Company, of which the Mar
ouis de Mores is the head, recently filed a
consent to the mortgaging of the company's
chattels to Morris, Butt & Co., or Kansas
City. The mortgages are the companys
Western agents.
AN agreement has been reached by
which the affairs of the Fidelity Bank OF
Cincinnati have been placed entirely IN the
hands of the receiver and the charter de-
clared forfeited.
NINETEEN thousand publ school teachers
attended the national convention which as
sembled in Exposition Hall, Chicago, on
the 18th. Three-fourths of those present
were ladies.
MEMBERS of the Southwestern lines met
at Chicago recently for the purpose OF dis
cussing the demand of the Chicago & Alton
for a reduction OF grain and other rates
from Kansas City and Missouri river points
to Chicago. The discussion resulted in
reduction of the rate on wheat 219c per
hundred, leaving corn rates as at present.
THE Cincinnati police court has finally
shut up the shops where the game OF
s'policy" has been carried on. Heretofore
there have been arrests, but failures to
prove the charges.
IT has leaked out that General Manager
Hayes, of the Wabash Western railway,
when en- route from Chicago to st. Louis,
was attacked while asleep in his private
car the other night by an unknown man
who, at the pistols point, robbed him OF his
valuables and escaped. tf
SPECIAL PENSION EXAMINER CHARLES 81.
BELLE on duty in Cincinnati, has been
peremptorily removed by telegraph upon
the receipt OF dispatch saying that he had
severely criticised the Presidents rebel
flag order and his st. Louis letter.
FIELD rats attacked q man near Detroit,
Mich, recently and killed him. His re-
mains were unrecognizable. The rats also
attacked another man, but he managed to-
beat them off with a club after being terri
bly, bitten.
THE trial of the lake front case at Chicago
ended on the 18th. A decision was not ex-
pected for some time.
GENERAL RICHARD RowETT, a well-known
turfman and breeder of Southern Illinois,
dropped dead on the Washington Park race
track at Chicago the other day.
A PITCHED battle occurred recently at
Youngstown, o., between employees Of the
Pittsburgh & Western and the city authorl-
ties over the right of way for tracks. The
railroad people were ultimately defeated
and arrests made.
SOUTHERN ARIZONA was recently VlslCeo
with very severe rain storms.
JUDGE ROBERT E. COwAN, keeper of the
grand seals, Knights of Pythias, died at st.
Louis on the 18th. He was formerly 9
prominent resident of Kansas City.
THE prize drill of the Patriarchal Circle
Temple, in attendance at the annual con-
clave of the Supreme Temple, was held at
Milwaukee on the 18th. The Ridgely
Temple, of Bloomington, ILL.,, was awarded
first prize; Occidental Temple, of Chicago,
second prize; Pioneer Temple, of Des
Moines, third prize.
ATTORNEY Hunt at Chicago on
the 14th filed information in the circuit
court, complaining of the National Aid So
cieuy and National Life Indemnity Associa-
ton. He characterized the business of
both as being of the ''grave yard' order
and said they were lnsolvent.